While all of this was taking place, a massive propaganda campaign in the United States sought to deceive the American people into accepting a the deceive the American people into accepting a Communist takeover of China. An excellent source of into information about events during this time is John T. Flynn's book While You Slept: Our Tragedy In Asia and Who Made it. It was published by the Devin-Adair Company in 1951 and reprinted by Western Islands in 1965. John T. Flynn was a graduate of Georgetown University, and had pursued a wide and varied career as a newspaper man being managing editor of the New York Globe, and a columnist for the New Republic and the Scripts- “Howard newspapers. The author of several books, and a radio commentator, John T. Flynn was known for his careful and responsible handling of facts. One thing that greatly puzzled Flynn was the way some of America's greatest newspapers, magazines, radio networks, and even motion picture producers supported the Communist takeover of China and supported the Communist takeover of China and slandered Chiang Kai-shek. Although many writers supporting Mao's communist guerrillas were later identified as Communists, the owners of the major news What writers like Flynn did not know was that these powerful and wealthy businessmen, operating out of New York, and working through the major tax-free foundations and organizations like the CFR, had 126 The Secret Side of History were later and entertainment media were certainly not Communists. foundations